I was headed to my car balancing a box of sewing items in my arms when I heard the auctioneer announce the sale of a wicker patio set. I had seen the four chairs and…
Wicker patio furniture for a steal
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Category: furniture
When the old TV tunes out
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I knew it was way past time to buy a new TV set when the picture kept jumping back and forth from black and white to color. I had bought the Mitsubishi more than a…
I was squeezing myself through some narrow aisles at an auction house over the weekend, searching for unusual pieces of furniture to aim my focus. I wasn’t having much luck. Everything looked so ordinary until I…
Art, clock & desk from Lewis Tanner Moore
Posted in Art, Black history, and furniture
The name Lewis Tanner Moore kept popping up on the auction sheet in descriptions of several pieces of artwork. I recognized the names of the artists, including Allan Freelon and Paul Keene, both acclaimed Philadelphia…
The doll bed was in awful condition. It was dusty. It was dirty, and the ropes that once crisscrossed its bottom were busted, now only remnants. The bed still had its four wooden posts and…
An almost full-service hair salon
Posted in Beauty Products, furniture, and Style
At auction, I’ve stumbled across vintage hair dryers, straightening combs, curling irons, and even plastic curlers for a doll’s hair. Blow dryers, too, end up on the tables from time to time. But at auction over…
A standout set of silver chairs
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, and furniture
For me, silver is the color of a dime, a necklace, forks and spoons, and antique vessels. So imagine my delight when I was browsing the furniture offerings at an auction house recently and came…
The hot tub was literally the elephant in the room. You could not walk from one room in the auction house to another without practically bumping into it. As big as it was, though, I had…